Australia: Numinbah Valley (lots of photos)

We packed the car up and headed south to the hinterland inland from the goldcoast to Numinbah valley, which is part of the Springbrook National Park. It is one of the most beautiful parts of Queensland I think we have been so far. This was our first real bushcamping experience, we were staying on the property of the place that I had booked my self on for a trial ride. The property was made up of about 3000acres of land with a river running through it. We were able to camp down by the river which was beautiful. We drove down on Saturday morning and went to see Natural Arch which has been formed by erosion from the water and is lovely. The cave houses glow worms which can be seen at the right times. When we were walking back from the cave we came across a carpet python just hanging around by the side of the track - Garry was made up with the little sighting it was cool. When we were leaving the best of all look out the sun was starting to set and we saw loads of Pademelons (small kangaroos). We went in search for somewhere to eat which when you are in the middle of nowhere is really hard, so after driving for quite a while we found a lovely place called the woodchopper. After we finished dinner we headed back to the campsite on route we saw a frogmouthed owl sitting at the side of the road which was awesome.

Natural Arch

Natrual Arch

Carpet Python

Garry next to his snake

Lookout

Best of all lookout

We pitched the tent in out little secluded spot and then headed out to check out the sceanry in the area. We visited a look out, that views Purlington falls - for the first time there was actually a water fall. We then checked out some of the other lookout until we found the one aptly named Best of All look out - which was definatly the best of all. Sunday I went for a three hour trial ride through numinbah valley we had tea and damper by the river which was lovely then had a nice canter through the beautiful countryside. After the ride we went on a walk to the Purlington falls which we had seen the day before. It was cool we walked down to the waterfall and around the back. After all the exercise we headed back to Brisbane for another week of work.